Ever judge an album by its cover alone?

[rockgoddess1968]

I bought this album just based on the cover.........it really caught my eye....and now I love Disturbed.

 

[Lynch]

^^ that is definitely one of the coolest album covers I've seen in the last 10-15 years. No doubt about it.

 

[Sweaty]

I purchased the Enid, In The Region Of The Summer Stars and was not dissapointed

 

[Mr. T]

Guess I'm an oddball but when I was a kid I bought dozens and dozens of albums based strictly on the cover. Lived in a small town where there was only a crap AM station and of course there was no net yet so I had to take my chances many times. Most times I was pleased but then again an album was only 4 bucks new back then!

 

[Nololob]

Depends. I usually don't look at the cover, more keen to know what's inside. However if album cover has pentagrams and inverted crosses and was released in 80s I always say "this must be a good album" and I am always right.

 

[Prime]

I probably would be judging it more positively if I were to judge by an album cover before I knew what was on the CD. Judging an album by it's cover in a negative way before listening to the album would be kind of pointless. Some album art is pretty amazing too, and that in some cases could be enough for me to want to purchase it.

 

[WetWilly]

Bought this without having heard anything while I was in high school. The music did live up to the cover.

That's funny, I also bought that one based on the cover. Well actually I saw the album cover then had to go find it on 8-Track. I tell you R.Evans you & I seem to have a few things in common, now if I can just persuade you to become a Razorback fan, then you'd be A-OK in my book

 

[joe]

Only twice. It was Venom's At War With Satan when it was first released in 1983. My god, it was awful when I listened to it the first time. I tried to take it back to the store where I bought it and said it skipped, hoping to get an exchange. I lied and got caught as the employee put it on the store's turntable and well...it didn't skip. Damn.

The second was 666 by Vangelis' first band, Aphrodite Child's only a couple of months later. This album scarred the hell out of me. Blasphemy. However this time the album did have a skip in it and fortunate enough for me the shop didn't have another copy so I got a credit. God works in mysterious ways. That day I switched my allegiances.

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

I don't even have a turntable and I so very nearly bought this LP the other day!

 

[Riff Raff]

All Iron Maiden covers are cool, they alone initially got me hooked on the band, then I found out how ****ing amazing the music is too.